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Re: menu madness with retain count
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Re: menu madness with retain count


  • Subject: Re: menu madness with retain count
  • From: "Gary L. Wade" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:32:24 -0700
  • Thread-topic: menu madness with retain count

On 04/27/2010 2:27 PM, "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Gary L. Wade
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but how would you use those to determine why an Apple framework now
>> chooses to retain a delegate (I'm referring to one particular one I
>> discovered), thereby causing a retain cycle?  It's not a memory leak in the
>> sense that Instruments or leaks would ever catch it.
>
> If you use the Object Allocations template (with retain tracking
> enabled) in Instruments then yes you can track down those type of
> issues easily ... far more easily then trying to probe retainCount in
> code yourself. I likely have use Instruments to track down every
> conceivable problem that may make you want to look at retainCount...
> you don't have to modify any code either.
>
>> Calling -retainCount immediately before and after the -setDelegate call is
>> pretty much the only
>> way.
>
> Simply not true.
>
> -Shawn

That's how I found the cause of Apple's bug, but I verified what I was
seeing by using -retainCount before and after, so yes, that simply is true.


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